Device for protecting car-axle journals



April 2l, 1925.

w. H. SANFORD DEVICE FOR PROTECTING CAR AXLE JOURNALS Filed Nov. ll, 1922 /NVEN TUR.

HTTOR/VEX Patented Apr. 21, 1925.

WILLIAM H. SANFORD, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

DEVIC FOR PROTECTING CAR-AXLE JOURJTAIIJS.`

Application filed November 11J 1922.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, TWILLIAM H. SANFORD, residing at Buffalo, Erie County, State of New York,v and being a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Device tor Protecting Car-Axle Journals, of which the following is a full7 clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and to use the same, reference being had to the accompanying' drawings, which illustrate the preferred form of the invention, though it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the enact details ot construction shown and described, as it is obvious that various modifications thereof within the scope of the claims will occur to persons skilled in the art.

In said drawings:

Fig. l is a view in elevation of a portion of a car axle with my improved journal protection applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. l;

Fig. 3 is a view in elevation of my device shown detached from the axle;

Fig. t is a section similar to Fig. 2 taken through a portion of my device showing the manner in which the opening between engaging faces ot two sections is closed; and

Fig. 5 is a similar section showing the manner in which the sections of my device may be joined by flexible woven material which :torms a hinge uniting the sections.

It is an object of my invention to provide an improved device for protecting the journals of railway car axles which may be substituted for the lagging which is now used. It is also an object ot my invention to provide a protection of such character that it may be molded or formed so as to be readily applied to the axle journal. It is also an object ot my invention to provide a protection of the type described ot molded or pressed fibrous material.

`With these and other objects in view my invention, which is shown in the drawings applied to the journal at one end of a car aXle l, comprises a tube 2 of fibrous material such as paper or papier-mch or other suitable material. j

The tube 2 has a central portion 3 which Serial No. 600,457.

tit-s the axle journal proper and portions et and 5 of greater diameter at the ends which serve to cover and protect the shoulders at the ends of the journal. Tube 2 may be formed of layers of heavy paper or other suitable material wrapped to a proper form and size and secured binder and then divided longitudinally into sections in order that the tube may be readily applied to the journal or the tube may be formed from a pulp which is pressed or ui'olded into the shape ot the section-s which go to form the tube. As shown in Fig. 2 the tube is divided into two sections joined by a hinge 6, which is formed of a piece of a suitable woven material as a light canvas, having its endsinserted and secured in the sections. The other meeting edges of the sections are lapped by a flap secured to one of the sections. This construction provides a tube which may be opened so as to be easily slipped upon the journal.

To secure the tube 2 upon the journal binding straps 8 are provided which comprise flexible metal strips having reduced ends 9 adapted to engage in slots l() in the other ends ot the strips and to be folded over so as to secure the strips about the tube as shown in Fig. 2. In order that the tube may withstand exposure to the weather the tube is treated with a water prooling com pound or a suitable water proofing compound may be mixed with the pulp of which the tube is formed. Forming the device in the manner described permits of the tube being made suiiiciently thick to provide adequate protection for the finished journal surtace while at the same time providing a protection that is readily and cheaply provided and readily applied and removed from the journal.

What I claim is zl. A device for protecting aXle journals comprising a tube composed of water prooted sections molded to the journal shape, hinges connecting said sections and means adapted to secure the sections on the journal.

2. A device for protecting axle journals comprising a tube composed of shaped sections having end portions of greater radius than the central portion of the tube, em-

together by a suitable bedded hinges connecting said sections, and in fthe sections to mvably connect the Sec binding means engaging the central portion tions, and means for securing the sections in to secure said tube on an a-Xle journl. pince about an axle.

3. A3- ,dev-icei for.protectingV -axlei'journa'ls Inf witness-whereof- Igihave; hereunto set compri-sing atube. formed ofniolded secinyhondin thepresence of two Witnesses. tions havino' cent1-a1 ortions adaptedio engage the iside journaundendportions of WILLIAM H' SANFORD' greater radius than said central `portion Witnesses: adapted to engage the shouldensfmt,the-ends FAX-:151. rMlgfxemmi, 10 of the axle journal, fabric hinges embedded JOHN P. BRAGH. 

